In remembrance of the 33 lives lost in Blacksburg this week, Dan Shanoff and other blogs around the country are participating in Orange and Maroon Day by “wearing” the colors of Virginia Tech. Each of the Ladies… universities is represented on the banner above, in a show of solidarity with all VT students, alumni, faculty and staff as they struggle with the senseless tragedy and horrible loss.
Every other day of the year, we may be a College of Charleston Cougar, a Texas Longhorn, a Pitt Panther, a Rutgers Scarlet Knight, a Wake Forest Demon Deacon, an Iowa Hawkeye and a Tennessee Volunteer– but today, we are all Hokies.
April 20, 2007 at 2:23 am |
That’s really great, Texas Gal. Nicely done.
April 20, 2007 at 9:30 am |
Thank you. Gestures like this do help us.
April 20, 2007 at 9:30 am |
This is a really nice gesture. Well done.
April 20, 2007 at 9:31 am |
Thank you, TX. Beautifully done…
April 20, 2007 at 9:43 am |
Lovely, Tex.
April 20, 2007 at 9:44 am |
Thanks ladies!! The support everyone has shown has been so amazing. I am prouder than ever to be a Hokie.
April 20, 2007 at 11:20 am |
Photoshop indeed has useful purposes, I’ve learned.
April 20, 2007 at 12:25 pm |
Very nicely done.
April 20, 2007 at 12:33 pm |
Nice touch. Very classy. I couldn’t have said it any better.
April 20, 2007 at 12:38 pm |
Amazing Tex.
April 20, 2007 at 12:41 pm |
+ infinity, Tex.
April 20, 2007 at 12:55 pm |
well done, tex. i feel bad that i didnt have anything orange or maroon to wear tday, to physically show support. im still thinking of va. tech.
April 20, 2007 at 2:39 pm |
That’s a gorgeous banner. As I mentioned in my response to the shooting, I live in Charlottesville, where there’s a natural rivalry both geographic and, now, in conference. I wish everyone could see how this town is turned out in Maroon and Orange today, though. Everyone’s wearing a shirt, a hat, a pin – something VT. I’m betting we’ll get goosebumps all football season when Tech takes the field throughout the ACC.
April 20, 2007 at 4:15 pm |
Thank you so much. This Hokie is very touched by it!
April 20, 2007 at 5:51 pm |
Thank you. Our son is at VT and we all need the lift that this bring.
April 20, 2007 at 7:59 pm |
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April 20, 2007 at 8:04 pm |
So, which Lady… is a College of Charl… — excuse me, University of Charleston alumna? (Just curious, as I went to a youth writer’s seminar there, nigh two decades ago.)
(That said, I wouldn’t have encountered the woman in question, there, at that time.)
Also, any chance that Nikki Giovanni gets honorary Lady… status? Maybe, Lady… Emerita, since she wouldn’t be in the regular cast of writers here….
April 20, 2007 at 9:32 pm |
i think that banner just gave me a hard on. nicely done, ladies
April 21, 2007 at 8:51 pm |
Disco Stu it is I that is a student (or at least will be this fall) at CofC. And it is still College of Charleston. Last I heard of that is. And two decades ago? I was 1. Yeah…
After that speech I think I’m in love with Nikki Giovanni. And I’m not the poetry lover.